In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the “itch of scribbling” had seized the nation. Introduction In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the itch of scribbling had seized the nation. ‘The rage of writing has seized the old and young’ across all segments of society, he observed, so that now ‘the cook warbles her lyrics in[…]
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel to the rugged Peaks — Seán Williams considers the connection between walking and writing. This article, Rambling Reflections: On Summers in Switzerland and Sheffield, was originally published in The Public Domain Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you[…]
Reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history. Stapp postulated another physical, not spiritual, world. I knew Orrill Stapp before I met him. The thin man with the wire-rimmed glasses, battered briefcase, and scuffed shoes. The black woman with the long tweed coat, red lipstick, and bulging shoulder bags. The elderly man who looked like John Bolton, only with[…]